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Henry Fox Tabot and the Discovery of Photography. 
Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
An article by H. Snowden Ward in the Camera Obscura for April, 
1900, pp. 746—749, with illustrations of a photograph of a latticed 
window, made ‘‘ with the Camera Obscura, August, 1835,” and exhibited 
to the Royal Society in 1839, and also a contact print of ‘‘ Fern” leaves 
made in 1836. 
An Enquiry into the Early History of Photograhy, 
with a preliminary notice of William Henry Fox Talbot as “ The 
Father of Photography,” in the number of The Photogram 
for December, 1899, runs through January, February, March, April, 
June, July, August, and September: pp. 3—70, 35—38, 70—72, 97100, 
169—172, 223—225, 245—247, 275—281. The last three of these numbers 
contain ‘“‘a Sketch of the Life of W. H. Fox Talbot” and ‘‘ the Internal 
History of Talbotype or Calotype.” 
The illustrations include:—an excellent full-page portrait of William 
Henry Fox Talbot, and a smaller one—the Camera picture of 1835—a 
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facsimile of a page of Talbot’s paper to the Royal Society—The Contact — 
print of leaves, 1886—a Breakfast Table Scene (which has appeared in 
Eliza Meteyard’s ‘‘ Life of Josiah Wedgwood” and is ascribed by her to 
him: the negative, however, still exists at Lacock)—Lacock Abbey— 
Fox Talbot’s Establishment at Reading—Lacock Church—Church of §. 
Maurice at Vienna—and Portal of St. Trophimus at Arles—all from 
Calotypes by Fox Talbot. 
The Mitred Benedictine Abbey of S. Aldhelm, 
Malmesbury, a Guide-Memoir by Mackenzie E. C. Walcott . . . 
Jones & Son, High Street, Malmesbury, 1897. Pamphlet, cr. 8vo, pp. 
51, with Plan of Malmesbury, Ground-plan of the Abbey, and very bad 
woodcuts of The Tomb of King Athelstan—Exterior of the Abbey (North 
and South sides),—Interior (Hast and West)—Market Cross as it stood 
in 1800—St. John’s Arch. The letterpress, on the other hand, is very 
much in advance of the ordinary small local guide book—the early 
history of the Abbey, and of Mzldulph and St. Aldhelm—its endowments 
and its architectural history are all treated of at considerable length 
and in considerable detail—the abbey buildings now destroyed are 
described as far as they are known, an account of the suppression is 
given, as well as a list of the known abbots. Indeed it is not often that 
you can buy for sixpence so good an account of any monastic building. 
It would be much better without the illustrations, which give quite a 
false idea of its contents. 
The Early History of London, Malmesbury, 
Cirencester, and the ancient Kingdom of Cornwall or the 
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Cassiterides ; with an account of the settlement in Britain of the Trojans, . 
Dorians, Cittians, Samaritans, Cassii and Cronii; also of the descendants 
of Gomer and Magog, the sons of Japhet: by John T. Painter, Malmes- 
bury, Author of ‘The History and Genealogy of the Human Race.” __ 
